Insect-exterminating device



March 25, 1924;

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MAUD BELLO'UTIS, OF

INSECT-EXTERME Application filed .april 18 To @ZZ whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, Mann Benn-owe, a citizen of the` United States,residing at Spirit Lake, in the county of Dickinson and State of Iowa,have invented certain new and useful Improvements inInsect-Exterrninating Devices, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to a device for catching ies without ruining thewallpaper, the ceiling or the carpets in the room where the ies usuallygather. The usual method of getting rid of flies is to use a swatterwith a short handle, but this method has the disadvantage of soiling thewallpaper and dropping flies on the floor to be swept up later on.

Another way of catching flies is by use of so-called tanglefoot paperdeposited in different places in the room, in which case you have totrust to the fly being attracted towards the paper. This is not a sureway of ridding the room of flies, which have a tendency to collect onwindows and ceiling of the room.

The main object of the presentinvention is now to provide a sure meansof catching the flies without soiling the walls, ceiling or furniture,and to go after the fly instead of depending on the fiy coming to aflypaper.

In the accompanying drawing one embodiment of the invention isillustrated, and;

Figure 1 shows a perspective view of the insect exterminating device;and

Figure 2 is a fragmentary vertical section thereof.

The device consists of an upper boxshaped structure 10, which may becalled the trap, and a handle 11 rigidly secured on the under sidethereof. The trap has a solid bottom 12, and two longitudinal walls 13and two end walls 14 and 15. This boxshaped trap may be nia-de of tinplate pressed to form the bottom and walls as integral parts, or thewalls might be soldered or welded to the bottom. The top edges 16 of thewalls should be straight and on the same level. y

In the end wall 15 is secured a retaining lever 17 which is of flexiblematerial such as spring wire, and has a downwardly directed hump 18 inthe middle extending to the bottom 12 and pressing against the same whenthe free end 19 of the lever engages in the l-shaped slot 20 in the endwall 14.

N'IING DEVICE.

Serial To. 632,935.

ifi suitable size for this box or trap is three inches wide, si); incheslong and one inch deep, but it is evident t it any otherdimen-- sions orshape, as, for instance, round, sguare or oblong may be given to thetrap.

The handle 'li preferably constructed of wire, several strands of whichbeing twisted around to form the stein 21, which is preferably providedwith a loop 22 at the lower end. .it the opposite end of the handle, thewires are divided 'out to run to each corner of the boi; to form arms 23se cured on the under side of the trap, as by soldering or in any othersuitable manner. rlhe length of the handle is about forty inches, butmay be made longer in case the rooms, where the trap is going to beused, are very high. in the bottom of the boX or trap is placed a pieceerably of the kind the name of generally known under tanglefoot and thisniece of flypaper is held in position by the lever 17, the hump 18 ofwhich presses against the flypaper.

.in using this device, the handle 11 is gripped near its loop 22, andthe open side of the trap 10 is placed against the wall or the ceilingwhere the flies are seated. This action will disturb the iy, which triesto escape and, by doing so, is liable to hit the fiypaper and be caughtby the same. This procedure is repeated until the room is rid of flies,and whenever the sheet of paper 24 has been filled, a new piece is putin its place. This is easily accomplished by detaching the free end 19of the lever 17, and lifting the saine suiiciently to remove theflypaper, when a new piece is put in its place and held in position asbefore by looking the lever 17 in the l..-shaped slot 20.

instead of using tin or sheet metal in constructing the trap 10, anyother suitable 1naferial may be utilized such as cardboard, celluloid,fiber and the like.

This device is extremely sanitary as the flies will be collected in thetrap itself and not strewn around the floor and furniture or fallinginto dishes of food or beverages, as is often t-he case when a swat-teris used, and whenever a sheet of liypaper is taken out from the trap, itshould immediately be burned or destroyed in any other manner.

lt is also clear that by the use of this device considerable time isgained in ridding a room of the pest, as instead of waiting the tlyspleasure in approaching a flypaper deof flypaper 24, prefposited in theroom, he is hunted to his hiding place and caught in the trap.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed as new is:

1. An insect exterminator comprising a box member open at one end andadapted to receive fiypaper in `its bottom, and means for retaining thelypaper in position, said means including a lever hinged in one of thewalls oli said box n'iember and engaging in an l.shaped slot provided inthe opposite Wall oii'said box member.

Q. fin insect exterminator comprising a box member open at one end andadapted to receive iiypaper in its bottom, and means for retaining the'H5/'paper in position, said means including a lever hinged in one ofthe Walls of said box member and engaging in an L-shaped slot providedin the opposite Wall of said box member, said lever having a humpadapted to contact With the flypaper. 3. An insect exterminatorcomprising a box member open at one end and adapted to receive. fiypaperin its bottom, means for retaining the fiypaper, in position including alever engaging in the Walls of the boX member and provided with a bentportion oontaeting with the l'lypaper, and a handle attached to Saidboi: member on the bottom portion thereof. Y y

In testimony whereof l aHiX my signature.

' MAUD BELLOVVS. [n s]

